After Malout attack, Abohar MLA ‘gives up’ Punjab police security

Raj Sadosh

Abohar, March 27

Upset over the humiliation reportedly at the hands of protesting farmers at Malout on Saturday where he had gone to address a press meet to highlight “failure” of Amarinder Singh-led government in fulfilling the 2017 election promises, BJP legislator Arun Narang has reportedly returned the security guards that Punjab Police had provided to him.

About a hundred BJP activists reached the subdivisional civil hospital at night and escorted Narang in a procession back to his Gaushala Road residence. The activists shouted slogans against Punjab Police and state government alleging conspiracy in thrashing of the MLA.

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As he had not suffered any major injury, party activists told him to leave the hospital, as the process for the medical examination had been completed and this is to be followed by recording his statement by the police for registering a case against Malout-based protesters. “If police guards can’t protect the legislator from physical assault, what was the logic of having security,” angry workers argued. They didn’t listen to officials’ explanation.

Later, Fazilka SP Harjeet Singh, Abohar DSP Rahul Bhandari along with Station House officers of local police stations reached Narang’s residence. The SP inquired about the sequence of Malout incident from Narang.